Kodak Reintroduces Ektachrome.

[zen_zanon]

I'm wanting to hold out and save my $$$ for the new Ektachrome but deals on properly stored old Ektachrome keep popping up damnit.

 

[cmacd123]

Most cinema students won’t be able to invest in 35mm film (cameras, the actual film, processing, etc.) to learn how to shoot with it. Super-8 is much cheaper for that..

I have heard from several sources that a classic first year assignment was "Pick a story, here is ONE roll of super 8 and an auto exposure camera - you have x days to shoot your story - hand in your film an Day Y and it will be processed and screened in the following weeks classes. Note that you will not see the film before hand, and so you have to do all your editing in Camera. No splicing allowed"

The purpose of that sort of assignment is to get folks to think of "the Story" rather then the technical details. Hard to do with a digital camera as shots needed to be edited together which misses the point.

 

[fdonadio]

"Pick a story, here is ONE roll of super 8 and an auto exposure camera - you have x days to shoot your story - hand in your film an Day Y and it will be processed and screened in the following weeks classes. Note that you will not see the film before hand, and so you have to do all your editing in Camera. No splicing allowed"

I have to try this one of these days. I have some Tri-X here.

 

[MattKing]

Oh, but don't you want every device in your house connected to the internet? What did we ever do before smart toilets and smart garbage cans and smart kitchen towels?

I was in a bathroom fixture sales showroom last year where they had examples of the latest hi-technology toilets. They sense your presence, open automatically, flush automatically after use and close as you leave.
I wonder how families with curious dogs feel about them?

 

[RattyMouse]

Oh, but don't you want every device in your house connected to the internet? What did we ever do before smart toilets and smart garbage cans and smart kitchen towels?

Ever see a Japanese toilet? Looks like something NASA would build.

 

[Wayne]

I dont even like the "high-tech" no-slam lid you have to buy with any new toilet. I don't trust any lid to close without hearing it.

 

[Chan Tran]

I have heard from several sources that a classic first year assignment was "Pick a story, here is ONE roll of super 8 and an auto exposure camera - you have x days to shoot your story - hand in your film an Day Y and it will be processed and screened in the following weeks classes. Note that you will not see the film before hand, and so you have to do all your editing in Camera. No splicing allowed"

The purpose of that sort of assignment is to get folks to think of "the Story" rather then the technical details. Hard to do with a digital camera as shots needed to be edited together which misses the point.

But what's about the digital video camera? Can you start and stop them and keep them as a continuously long file? Like video tape?

 

[Sirius Glass]

I was in a bathroom fixture sales showroom last year where they had examples of the latest hi-technology toilets. They sense your presence, open automatically, flush automatically after use and close as you leave.
I wonder how families with curious dogs feel about them?

During the Minoan period, 2500 BCE, the Knossos palace had two water systems, one for consumption and one for sewage, and flushing toilets. After their fall it took until the 19th century for people to figure those out!

 

[Photo Engineer]

There is a new program on TV this coming fall. I think it is called "Shame of Thrones". It is a history of bad toilet design. I've actually seen an ad for it but may have the name wrong. It is a play on "Game of Thrones" though.

PE

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I have heard from several sources that a classic first year assignment was "Pick a story, here is ONE roll of super 8 and an auto exposure camera - you have x days to shoot your story - hand in your film an Day Y and it will be processed and screened in the following weeks classes. Note that you will not see the film before hand, and so you have to do all your editing in Camera. No splicing allowed"

The purpose of that sort of assignment is to get folks to think of "the Story" rather then the technical details. ...

As a young kid, before I had a 35mm camera, my photography was with 8mm cameras (I really wanted to be a TV cameraman). Anyway, my movies were bad - even I hated watching them. There was a new book in the library: "How to Shoot a Movie Story" by Gaskill and Englander; I checked it out and read it. The book made so much sense to me. Since I couldn't afford to buy the book in a bookstore, I typed up the summaries at the end of each chapter for my own notes (which I have to this day). Reading that book and following its principles made my movies much better.

That was in late 1970 or early 1971; I notice the book is still available today.

 

[macfred]

There is a new program on TV this coming fall. I think it is called "Shame of Thrones". It is a history of bad toilet design.

Shame of Thrones ...

jakes by Andreas, on Flickr

 

[Sirius Glass]

I was in a bathroom fixture sales showroom last year where they had examples of the latest hi-technology toilets. They sense your presence, open automatically, flush automatically after use and close as you leave.
I wonder how families with curious dogs feel about them?

The dogs would probably like them because they would always get fresh cold water. When I was a child we had a border collie who would come in and chortle angrily at us if the toilet needed flushing.

 

[Wayne]

There is a new program on TV this coming fall. I think it is called "Shame of Thrones". It is a history of bad toilet design. I've actually seen an ad for it but may have the name wrong. It is a play on "Game of Thrones" though.

PE

My favorites are the low volume "water saving" flushers that you have to flush twice in order to get everything down.

 

[MattKing]

I believe that we may now have set the new standard for off-topic discussion in an APUG/Photrio thread!

 

[Wayne]

Time to flush this one.

 

[RattyMouse]

Brutal.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

This is from 1964, 54 years ago. Color is still excellent. Waiting for that Ektachrome and hoping Kodak survives.

 

[erian]

I hope that when they finally release it then a new thread is created.

It is hurting read "Kodak Reintroduces Ektachrome" and then check with small hope that maybe there is a real announcement instead of this off-topic, I do not know, bubbling?

 

[keenmaster486]

bubbling

Bubble, bubble, bubble... Bubbles!

 

[railwayman3]

This is from 1964, 54 years ago. Color is still excellent. Waiting for that Ektachrome and hoping Kodak survives.

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Life was so much simpler in 1964.

 

[abruzzi]

There is a new program on TV this coming fall. I think it is called "Shame of Thrones". It is a history of bad toilet design. I've actually seen an ad for it but may have the name wrong. It is a play on "Game of Thrones" though.

PE

Peter Greenaway made a short documentary about bathrooms called “26 Bathrooms”. It’s very typical Greenaway.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088649/

 

[Sirius Glass]

Peter Greenaway made a short documentary about bathrooms called “26 Bathrooms”. It’s very typical Greenaway.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088649/

The Minoan civilization [Knossos Palace] from 1380 BCE to 1100 BCE had separative two water systems: one for drinking and hygiene and one for sewage. They also had flushing toilets. It took John Crapper until the 19th century to invent a flushing toilet again.

 

[Helios 1984]

During the Minoan period, 2500 BCE, the Knossos palace had two water systems, one for consumption and one for sewage, and flushing toilets. After their fall it took until the 19th century for people to figure those out!

The corncob industry must have lost a fortune.

 

[fdonadio]

It took John Crapper until the 19th century to invent a flushing toilet again.

He must have made a lot of crap to deserve that name!

 

[MattKing]

He must have made a lot of crap to deserve that name!

In case you are serious, it was his name that the slang term came from,